You’ve earned it. It’s your turn to pick what you think is missing from the Great Books list. We all agree to agree with you and read the book.
Initial ideas are brewing, subject to change, of course.
Pat:
Shantung Compound by Langdon Gilkey. It has 242 pages and is ripe for discussion.
Excerpt: “During the last year whenever we would look for a new stoker, cook, or kitchen helper. The question uppermost in the minds of the Labor Committee and the managers was no longer, ‘Has he the honesty to be trusted with these supplies?’ For the skills while important, could be learned, but integrity could not.”
This book concerns people of different nationalities caught in WWII in China. Their administration of the camp they inhabited, overseen by the Japanese of about 2,000 people revealed so much about human behavior.
Ken:
Two short stories written by Flannery O’Connor selected by Ken by
Jennifer:
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Diana:
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
John:
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged, Penguin Classics) by Edward Gibbon, David Womersley.